Week of 1/23: Charter vs Non-Charter
This week we look at the difference in stimulus spending between charter and non-charter schools, enrollment trends broken out by free or...
Burbio School Tracker
Our K-12 Spending and Policy insights newsletter highlighting key data points from our proprietary research, covering school funding, budgets, board meetings, strategic plans, enrollment, leadership, and more.
Week of 1/16: The Class of 2034
This week we look at some examples of state-level ESSER III spending, district-level enrollment shifts from the latest NCES data, and the residual...
Dennis Roche
Jan 17, 2023
Week of 1/9: Top Ten, Bottom Ten
This week we review recently announced NCES school enrollment data, charter school ESSER III spending rates, and more.
Dennis Roche
Jan 8, 2023
Week of 1/2: Less Than 2%
This week we provide updated figures for ESSER III spending categories, note the acceleration in spending by larger districts, and put some...
Dennis Roche
Jan 2, 2023
Week of 12/19: City Declines
This week we look at continued school disruptions and trends from the fifteen states that have announced 2022/23 enrollments.
Dennis Roche
Dec 18, 2022
Week of 12/12: Change of Plans
This week we look at changing ESSER III plans, as well as 2022/23 enrollment updates from three states.
Dennis Roche
Dec 11, 2022
Week of 12/5: CapEx
This week we look at K-12 disruptions related to illnesses, CapEx budgets and continued enrollment announcements.
Dennis Roche
Dec 4, 2022
Week of 11/21: A Fourteenth Grade
This week we look at Pre-K's role in district's enrollment shifts, a report out of Connecticut on remote learning, and 2022/23 enrollment...
Dennis Roche
Nov 21, 2022
Week of 11/14: "Weekend to Recover"
This week we take a look at illness-driven school disruptions, 2022/23 enrollment announcements from two states, and other trends from around K-12.
Dennis Roche
Nov 14, 2022
Week of 11/7: Spend Down
This week we look at enrollment trends, ESSER III spend down rates, and other K-12 news from around the country.
Dennis Roche
Nov 7, 2022
Week of 10/31: Early Enrollments
This week we look at 2022/23 enrollment summaries from two states, plus data related to last week's release of NAEP Assessments.
Dennis Roche
Oct 31, 2022
Week of 10/24: Functions & Objects
District budgets are often highly detailed and thus our spending categorizations are very granular, but they can also be rolled up to see higher...
Dennis Roche
Oct 23, 2022